shoulder to shoulder

idiom

1

: physically close together

Everyone was standing/squeezed shoulder to shoulder on the crowded bus.

2

: united together to achieve a shared goal

I stand shoulder to shoulder with the other legislators in this effort.

Examples of shoulder to shoulder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Office employees, retirees from St. Margaret’s House apartment community and residents of Southbridge Towers sat shoulder to shoulder at the bar. —Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025

Thank you for reading, and for standing shoulder to shoulder with us for so long and with such abiding loyalty. —Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Mar. 2025

Observers in the chamber sat shoulder to shoulder, and there was not a mask in sight. —Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 11 Mar. 2025

This does not faze any of the 700 or so people who are seated on tiered wooden platforms in front of the film, shoulder to shoulder in a cavernous concrete auditorium, waiting for what comes next. —P.e. Moskowitz, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for shoulder to shoulder

• policyholder
• beholder
• bondholder
• cardholder
• freeholder
• householder
• landholder
• leaseholder
• lienholder
• placeholder
• shareholder
• slaveholder